Category:My Facilities (Prabhupada)
Theme Analysis
Śrīla Prabhupāda’s perspective on facilities was entirely centered on the expansion of the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. He taught that a devotee is not interested in personal comfort or proprietorship, yet they must be expert in utilizing the best available resources—from jet planes to microphones—to broadcast the message of Godhead. This mood of yukta-vairāgya means that nothing is rejected if it can facilitate the preaching mission. Śrīla Prabhupāda’s vision shows that while we must avoid luxury for its own sake, we should never hesitate to employ the greatest facilities to reach the hearts of people worldwide.
- Service Over Personal Facility: Śrīla Prabhupāda clarifies that the motivation for seeking centers or equipment is never personal ambition but the urgent need for working facilities to publish and distribute spiritual knowledge.
- The Principle of Yukta-vairāgya: By utilizing modern technology like aeroplanes and microphones, Śrīla Prabhupāda demonstrates that everything in the material world can be spiritualized when employed in Kṛṣṇa's service.
- Reciprocation Between Guru and Disciple: Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that if a disciple respects the spiritual master as God's representative, they must provide the facilities necessary for him to carry out God’s work effectively.
- Administrative Facilities for Growth: The establishment of systems like the GBC and temple reports were devised by Śrīla Prabhupāda to facilitate the flow of information and ensure the healthy management of a global society.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Prabhupāda’s Vision on Using Every Facility for Kṛṣṇa.
Pages in category "My Facilities (Prabhupada)"
The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total.
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- I have no ambition for becoming the proprietor of any Matha or Mandir but I want working facilities. I am working day and night for my Bhagavatam publication and I need centres in the western countries
- I have no ambition to become the proprietor of any temple or house in America because what shall I do with them after becoming a Sannyasi but for the facility of work our own house is absolutely required
- I requested him to give me facilities to go to foreign countries, and he promised to do his best. Now, somehow or other, I am here and ask him if he will allow SANKIRTANA party to come here
- I want a diplomatic passport. Please inquire in this because I am always travelling, and this kind of passport will facilitate my travelling. I am a preacher of Indian culture; why they should not give me this kind of passport
- I wanted, "Oh, there is a miracle. If I try to preach this miracle in the world." So he has given me the facility. I never wanted the Gaudiya Matha buildings
- If I can go to America within fifteen hours for preaching facility, why shall not I use the aeroplane?
- If I get facility for pushing on my missionary work, there is no harm in getting married
- If somebody criticizes, "Oh, Caitanya Mahaprabhu walked on leg and you are travelling in the jet plane?" Shall I have to take that ideal? These are rascaldom. When you have to work, you have to work with the greatest facility
- If something is giving me facility to preach my Krsna consciousness movement, why shall I give it up?
- If you respect spiritual master as God, then you must offer him the facilities of God. Otherwise how you treat him as God? Simply in mind? In action also
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- The idea is that we want to get some facilities (from the United Nations) for presenting our formulas to the different nations of the world. The formula is very simple, but sublime at the same time
- The system of temple presidents sending twice monthly reports to the GBC was devised by me to facilitate my receiving news of all the centers through the GBC